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On sparkling seats, with marquetry inlaid of gold and pearl-work, sat in lower state the minor Godheads, marshall’d and array’d, e’en as demanded reason, rank, and rate:
Highest the seniors of most honour’d grade; lower adown the lower Deities sate:
When thus high Jove the deathless throng addrest with awful accents, dealing gravest hest:—